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of the Supreme Court of New York, rendered a de- 

 cision on Dec. 18, 1894, sustaining both claims. The 

 will bequeathed $2,100,000 to '21 colleges in sums 

 ranging from $300,000 to $50,000, and $95,000 to 5 

 hospitals in New York city, and directed that, after 

 the payment of all bequests and legacies, the res- 

 idue of the estate should be divided among the 

 collcires named, share and share alike. A fourth 

 codicil gave the residue to the executors as individ- 

 uals unconditionally. The contest was based princi- 

 pally on this codicil, and was compromised by the 

 executors executing a deed of gift under which the 

 residuary estate was apportioned by them among in- 

 stitutions, in accordance with what was claimed to 

 be the privately expressed wish of Mr. Fayerweatb- 

 er. This plan allowed $1,550,000 for 20 colleges, 

 $490,000 for 12 hospitals, one part each of the res- 

 idue to Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale 

 Colleges, and the Presbyterian Hospital, and 5 parts 

 to the Woman's Hospital. Under the decision of 

 Judge Truax, the heirs and next of kin of Mrs. 

 Fayerweather lose all for which they contended, and 

 the residue, originally amounting to about $3,000,000, 

 will be apportioned among the colleges named in the 

 will.- If the decision stands, Yale and Columbia Col- 

 leges will receive about $300,000 and $200,000 respec- 

 tively; Cornell University, Williams College, Am- 

 herst College, Hamilton College, Dartmouth College, 

 the University of Rochester, Lincoln University, the 

 University of Virginia, Hampton University, Union 

 Theological Seminary, Adelbert College (Ohio), Park 

 College (Missouri), and Bowdoin College, each $150,- 

 000; Wesleyan University, Lafayette College, Mari- 

 etta College (Ohio), Marysville College (Tennessee), 

 W abash College (Indiana), and the Northwestern 

 University (Illinois), each $100,000 ; 14 colleges will 

 lose $1,275,000, apportioned in the deed of gift; and 

 12 charitable institutions will lose $715,000. 



Fitch, Mrs. Emily, of New Haven, Conn., bequests to 

 Connecticut General Hospital, for a building for a 

 children's ward, $50,000 ; to Yale Theological School, 

 $30,000; to Hampton Normal Institute, $5,000; to 

 New Haven Orphan Asylum, $5,000; to Home Mis- 

 sionary Society of Center Church, $2,000; and to Con- 

 necticut Training School for Nurses, $1,000. 



Forbes, Charles E., of Northampton, Mass, (died Feb. 

 13, 1881), bequest to trustees for founding a public 

 library. The building was dedicated Oct. 23, 1894, 

 when' the cost was reported at $113,993, the book 

 fund $294.015, and total present fund $491,446. 



Ford, C. L., Professor of Anatomy in the Univ 

 of Michigan, bequests to charitable institutions, $100,"- 

 000; to the university library, $30,000. 



Franklin, Benjamin/of Philadelphia, Pa. (died April 

 17, 1790), bequest to the selectmen of Boston, Mass., 

 and the pastors of the oldest Presbyterian, Congrega- 

 tional, and Protestant Episcopal churches, for pi-omo- 

 tion of benevolent objects, 1,000, to become avail- 

 able a part in one hundred and the remainder in two 

 hundred years. In 1894 the bequest, with accumula- 

 tions, amounted to $430,000, of which $330,000 then 

 became available, the remainder with its increment 

 becoming available in 1994. The board of aldermen, 

 which succeeded the selectmen, and the pastors of the 

 First Presbyterian, the First Congregational, and the 

 Old North Churches, have decided to establish a 

 Franklin Trades School with the money now avail- 

 able. 



Friends, ffifts to St. Lawrence University, Canton, 

 K. Y., $42,973. 



Friends, gifts to Tufts College, Massachusetts, $16,- 

 000. 



Friends and Graduates, gift to the University of 

 Michigan, the great organ that stood in Festival Hall 

 during the World's Columbian Exhibition at Chi- 

 cago. 



Friends and Graduates, gifts to the University of the 

 City of New York, $111.025. 



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Friends of Columbia College, New Y T ork city, gifts 

 for books for the library, $37,054, including an anony- 

 mous one of $20,000 for founding a library of juris- 

 prudence. 



Frill. George, of Reading, Pa., gift canceling debt 

 on the local universalist church, $ti,000. 



Frost, Rufus S. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Frothingham, George W., of Brooklyn, N. Y., be- 

 quests to Brooklyn Aid Society, Brooklyn Hospital, 

 Eye and Ear Hospital, Orphan Asylum, Industrial 

 School Association, and Polytechnic Institute, each 

 $3,000; and to the First Unitarian Society and the 

 Union for Christian Work, each $2,000. _ 



Gould, Jay, children of, of New York city, gift to the 

 village of Roxbury, N. Y., a church edifice as a me- 

 morial to their father; cost, about $150,000; dedicated 

 Oct. 13, 1894. 



Gray, Melvin M., of St. Louis, Mo., gift to Drury 

 College, Springfield, Mo., to endow a chair of geol- 

 ogy, $25,000. 



"Green, Mrs. Sarah Helen, of New York city, bequest 

 for distribution among specified institutions securities 

 having a par value of $350,000. In 1894 this fund 

 amounted to $444.399, and the trustee paid the fol- 

 lowing legacies : The New York Society for the Re- 

 lief of Half Orphans and Destitute Children, Presby- 

 terian Board of Publication, Presbyterian Hospital of 

 New York, and Boards of Foreign and Home Mis- 

 sions of the Presbyterian Church, each $50,000 : the 

 New York School of Industrial Art for Women, West 

 Brighton Society for the Relief of Destitute Children 

 of Seamen, and the S. R. Smith Infirmary at Tomp- 

 kinsville, N. Y., each $25,000; and the Children's 

 Aid Society of New York City, $10,000; in all, 

 $335.000. 



Hadduck, Mrs. Louise, of Chicago, 111., bequest to St. 

 Luke's Free Hospital of that city, $25,000. 



HaK, Mrs. Lorinda M., of New Haven, Conn., be- 

 quests to Congregational, Presbyterian, and educa- 

 tional organizations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, 

 New York, and Virginia, $13,000. 



Hamilton, Robert Bay, of New York city, bequest for 

 an ornamental fountain to be presented to the city, 

 $10.000. 



Hamilton, S. M., of Baltimore, Md., bequest to the 

 trustees of the Seventh Baptist Church of that city 

 for citv mission work, $20,000. 



Hand, Daniel, of Guilford, Conn., bequest to Ameri- 

 can Missionary Association, $500,000. In life Mr. 

 Hand gave over $1,000,000 for educational purposes. 

 See sketch in "Annual Cyclopa'dia " for 1891, page 

 62A. 



Harter, Mrs. George D., of Canton, Ohio, gift to Wit- 

 tenberg Theological Seminary, for a chair of practi- 

 cal theology, $25.000. 



Haskell/Mrs. Caroline E., of Chicago, 111., gift to 

 University of Chicago, to endow a lectureship in 

 comparative religions, $20,000. 



Hasten, Mr. and Mrs. Erasmus, of North Brookfield, 

 Mass., gift, a free public library building, cost, $36,- 

 000; dedicated Sept. 20, 1894. 



Havemeyer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry 0., of New York 

 city, gift to the Meeting House School District of 

 Greenwich, Conn., a school building, completed in 

 May, 1894; cost, $250,000. 



Helme, Mrs. George "W., with George A. Eelme, Mr. 

 and Mrs. John W. Herbert, and Mrs. Charles G. Straiter, 

 joint gift to Protestant Episcopal diocese of New 

 Jersey, a church edifice, to be of granite, with a rec- 

 tory, at Helmetta, N. J. ; corner stone laid Oct. 16, 

 1894. 



Hosmer, Harriet, of Rome, Italy, gift to the Art In- 

 stitute of Chicago, the cast of the" clasped hands of 

 Robert Browning and his wife, made in 1853, for 

 which she had refused $5.000 in England. 



Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Henry, of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 gift to the University of Pennsylvania, for a students' 

 hall, $100,000. 



Hubbard, George W.. of Northampton, Mass., bequests 

 to Cooley Dickinson Hospital, $5,000; to South Street 

 Home, $2,000: to Home Missionary, New West Edu- 



